The Harmony of Illusions

副标题: Inventing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

ISBN: 9780691017235

出版社: Princeton University Press

出版年: 1997-10-27

页数: 328

定价: USD 37.50

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

As far back as we know, there have been individuals incapacitated by memories that have filled them with sadness and remorse, fright and horror, or a sense of irreparable loss. Only recently, however, have people tormented with such recollections been diagnosed as suffering from "post-traumatic stress disorder". Here Allan Young traces this malady, particularly as it is suffered by Vietnam veterans, to its beginnings in the emergence of ideas about the unconscious mind and to earlier manifestations of traumatic memory like shell shock or traumatic hysteria.